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I don't think any word can explain a man's life.
Orson Welles
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Orson Welles
Age: 70 †
Born: 1915
Born: May 6
Died: 1985
Died: October 10
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I don't take art as seriously as politics.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
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There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze.
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Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
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I don't want any description of me to be accurate I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as looking like an unmade bed. He was right!
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I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.
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I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
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